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Saudi Arabia donates million to stave off Yemen famine
Saudi Arabia has donated $60 million to help prevent famine in war-torn Yemen, where soaring food prices and Covid-19 have deepened battle woes, the United Nations said Thursday.  The conflict flared in 2014 when Houthi insurgents seized the capital Sanaa, prompting a Saudi-led military intervention to prop up the government the following year.  The $60 million contribution to the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) comes as Saudi seeks to blunt international criticism of its role in Yemen, while it struggles to extract itself from the worsening conflict.  Some 80 percent of Yemenis are now dependent on aid, in what the UN calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis. The

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